"Dear Senator Ron Wyden,
Please help stop the ridiculous lies that the government is paying to broadcast to our people about marijuana use. In stead of trying to convince the population that marijuana use will cause insanity and illegal behavior, it would be much more helpful to point out that it is less harmful than the way that many Americans use alcohol, but that responsible users should watch what they eat when using marijuana. Convincing teenagers that marijuana has a stronger psychotropic effect than euphoric laziness and increased appetite is simply going to make them want to try it more. I know I did. I understand that it's too early to convince our lawmakers to legalize this substance since most of the supporters are still too young to be a majority of the voters, but please help stop the spreading of lies about it. I hope that one day an average wild college party can consist of marijuana, Doritos, and video games, rather than a bottle of booze, a brawl, and the rape of a passed-out-drunk girl. Please help us make the first steps toward this future.
As your constituent, I'm writing to urge you to eliminate funding for the ineffective, expensive, and harmful National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign when you consider the Financial Services appropriations bill. Government-funded studies have repeatedly shown that these expensive "anti-drug" ads actually cause more - not less - teen drug use! It's no surprise that teens react negatively to the ads, which ridiculously claim that using marijuana causes people to shoot their friends in the face, get their fist stuck in their mouth, get pregnant, and even support terrorism. The federal government has already wasted more than $1.5 billion on the harmful and offensive ad campaign since 1998. Please follow the recommendations of the National Taxpayers Union, the 100-member House Republican Study Committee, and Citizens Against Government Waste and eliminate the ads so that no more taxpayer money is wasted on this expensive boondoggle.
Even the White House Office of Management and Budget said the program is "not performing," giving it a score of just 6 percent out of 100 for results and accountability. Nonetheless, the president has requested that another $130 million of taxpayers' money be thrown at the ads next year. Please don't allow this harmful waste to go on any longer. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on whether or not the government should keep spending taxpayers' money on a program that gets failing evaluations year after year."
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Becky's Message to Congress about Anti-Drug Propaganda Ads
--Becky Gray
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It should be obvious by now that the most harmful drugs on the planet are prescription drugs that mass murderers always seem to be tangled in. Witness any number of cases and it always comes back to prescribed pschotronics.
It's my understanding that it is a felony offense for one branch of the Federal Government to use propaganda to raise money for another branch of the Federal Government.
I do not know who is about to bring charges, but there's plenty of offense to go around. The hype for the purpose of trying to make Mr. Bush look decent is just stupid, when his brother is running around Asia with Sun Young Moon! Actually, that's outrageous. Appearances alone should sink that ship.
Someone needs to address the millions and millions of dollars wasted by firing goverment employees hired because they speak Farsi and fired because they were gay. In this time when inflections understood could save thousands of lives, they fire experts and have to seek out and train replacements!
I cannot read the news some days for days at a time. It makes me feel insane.
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